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What’s new in Redox?

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Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Redox!

The Last two weeks we have been busy working on some cool and exciting stuff!

Let’s start with the no-so-exciting things. That is: bootloader and drivers got their LICENSE file.

Moving on to the super exciting territory we have @jackpot51 (who else!?), who has been pretty busy standing on @ids1024’s shoulders and his GSoC work on self hosting. He has been implementing the remaining tasks and fixing the outstanding issues preventing us to run rustc and cargo inside Redox. This is a big deal! As is the crucial step on making Redox OS self hosted.

kernelwise @jackpot51 implemented interrupting on signals on pipes. He also made a hack to allow rustc to wait on non-child processes and incorporated a new sys:syscall scheme with the objective of seeing active system calls. He also migrated the kernel from the collections library and shipped many fixes to waitpid.

On the Ion side of things (and pretty much as always) we have a ton of stuff! But without a doubt, the highlights are for @chrisvittal’s implementation of multiple redirection, enabling us to do things like: cmd <file1 <file2 ^>> err-log > output | cmd2 (Go see the PR for more info). There were also a number of performance optimizations on assignments and parsing (remember that one of Ion’s goals is to remain at minimum as fast as the Dash shell) along better process expansion support (via forking). Lastly, @Shiwin implemented $regex_replace while @mmstick implemented !!, !$!0, !^ and !*.

There was lots of activity on the cookbook too: The addition of man pages by @jackpot51, @NilSet adding a recipe for PrBoom (Yes! we almost run doom!). Mr @goyox86 adding support for the recently released fd, @sajattack porting termplay finishing up with @xTibor who added a vttest recipe.

Orbterm saw @jackpot51 updating ransid which improved significantly ANSI compliance. Versions 0.2.0, 0.2.1 and 0.2.2 were also released while @xTibor made some updates to use the new ransid color handling.